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Improving the genome editing efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9 in Arabidopsis and Medicago truncatula.


ABSTRACT: MAIN CONCLUSION:An improved CRISPR/Cas9 system with the Arabidopsis UBQ10 promoter-driven Cas9 exhibits consistently high mutation efficiency in Arabidopsis and M. truncatula. CRISPR/Cas9 is a powerful genome editing technology that has been applied in several crop species for trait improvement due to its simplicity, versatility, and specificity. However, the mutation efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9 in Arabidopsis and M. truncatula (Mt) is still challenging and inconsistent. To analyze the functionality of the CRISPR/Cas9 system in two model dicot species, four different promoter-driven Cas9 systems to target phytoene desaturase (PDS) genes were designed. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation was used for the delivery of constructed vectors to host plants. Phenotypic and genotypic analyses revealed that the Arabidopsis UBQ10 promoter-driven Cas9 significantly improves the mutation efficiency to 95% in Arabidopsis and 70% in M. truncatula. Moreover, the UBQ10-Cas9 system yielded 11% homozygous mutants in the T1 generation in Arabidopsis. Sequencing analyses of mutation events indicated that single-nucleotide insertions are the most frequent events in Arabidopsis, whereas multi-nucleotide deletions are dominant in bi-allelic and mono-allelic homozygous mutants in M. truncatula. Taken together, the UBQ10 promoter facilitates the best improvement in the CRISPR/Cas9 efficiency in PDS gene editing, followed by the EC1.2 promoter. Consistently, the improved UBQ10-Cas9 vector highly enhanced the mutation efficiency by four-fold over the commonly used 35S promoter in both dicot species.

SUBMITTER: Wolabu TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7343739 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Improving the genome editing efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9 in Arabidopsis and Medicago truncatula.

Wolabu Tezera W TW   Park Jong-Jin JJ   Chen Miao M   Cong Lili L   Ge Yaxin Y   Jiang Qingzhen Q   Debnath Smriti S   Li Guangming G   Wen Jiangqi J   Wang Zengyu Z  

Planta 20200708 2


<h4>Main conclusion</h4>An improved CRISPR/Cas9 system with the Arabidopsis UBQ10 promoter-driven Cas9 exhibits consistently high mutation efficiency in Arabidopsis and M. truncatula. CRISPR/Cas9 is a powerful genome editing technology that has been applied in several crop species for trait improvement due to its simplicity, versatility, and specificity. However, the mutation efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9 in Arabidopsis and M. truncatula (Mt) is still challenging and inconsistent. To analyze the fun  ...[more]

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